Pratt alumna Anna Park, who studied Illustration and Fine Arts, is profiled in Vogue about her black-and-white drawings made with charcoal or India ink. “The absence of color was never really a conscious decision,” Park tells Vogue. “It’s similar to someone picking up an instrument, and it feels right or natural. There are so many formal qualities that I wanted to explore within the world of charcoal, paint, and ink that I didn’t need color.”
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Marland Backus, BID ’15, was featured in Vogue and HighSnobiety. Her heart necklace was also worn by superstar Chappell Roan.
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Two faculty members from the School of Architecture received 2024 Independent Projects Grants from The Architectural League and The New York State Council on the Arts. Laura Salazar-Altobelli, assistant professor of undergraduate architecture, received a grant for the upcoming exhibition In-Process: Alternative Methods in Reading Evolving Buildings; and Dragana Zorić, adjunct associate professor – CCE of undergraduate architecture, received a grant for the upcoming exhibition Jugoplastika: Women, Plastics and a Factory that Defined a Nation.
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Cameron Brentlinger, BID ’24, was highlighted on Core 77.
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Assistant Professor of Fashion Susan Cianciolo is mentioned in a recent Cultured article about artists using clothing as a medium for both art and style. “Consider the Brooklyn-based Susan Cianciolo, who had her own fashion line, Run, from 1995 to 2001, before burning out on the industry and refocusing her attention on visual art. She still makes clothing, but her runway shows have relocated to galleries, where they feel more like performance than industry ritual.
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The Semantic Lab shared their recent work at the 2024 LD4 Conference: Building Community for Linked Open Data. The presentation by Jessika Davis, MS Museums and Digital Culture ’22; Karen Hwang, MSLIS ’16; Ava Kaplan, MSLIS ’23; Adjunct Assistant Professor in the School of Information Matt Miller, MSLIS and MS History of Art and Design ’13; and Cristina Pattuelli is titled “Many Projects, One Platform: Renegotiating Semantics Across Knowledge Graphs.”
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Adjunct Professor of Landscape Architecture, Urban Design, and Environmental Planning in Pratt’s School of Architecture, Signe Nielsen, BS Construction Management ’01, was interviewed for Architectural Record about transforming a former industrial site on Manhattan’s East River into a new pier park. “I was deeply moved by being able to design a park that I really felt would resonate with the community,” said Nielsen.
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You Burn Me by Associate Professor of Film/Video Matías Piñeiro was a Currents selection at the 62nd New York Film Festival. The film also played at Berlinale and has been reviewed in The Guardian and BFI.
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Visiting Assistant Professor in the School of Information Rachel Daniell, MS Data Analytics and Visualization ’19, co-presented “Visualizing a Contemporary Humanitarian Crisis: Exploratory Mapping of Migrant Deaths from the Unstructured Text of Newspaper Accounts” at the North American Cartographic Information Society (NACIS) annual meeting. A recording of the presentation is also available on the NACIS YouTube channel.
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Karina Sharif, BFA Fashion Design ’08, was featured in Curbed. “Her peacock-like chair is captivating; it fans out dyed cotton paper along its solid steel frame; those delicate shell shapes in deep blues allude to the water that the artist (a former fashion designer) wanted to reference.”